Stakeholders at the Soil, Climate and Agricultural Sustainability Summit have urged the federal government to scale up mobile and laboratory soil testing services across the country.

The summit also recommended promoting residue retention, composting, and organic amendments over open burning, as well as developing and enforcing quality standards for fertilizers, compost, and biostimulants.

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Proxylogics, Ross Alabo-George, stressed that Nigerian farmers need adequate knowledge and appropriate inputs to boost soil fertility and achieve higher yields.

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He made the remarks on the sidelines of the Soil, Climate and Agricultural Sustainability Summit (SCASS 2025), themed “Building Climate-Smart and Inclusive Agricultural Systems: Aligning Policy, Practice, and Innovation.”

A communiqué issued at the end of the summit held in Abuja reaffirmed that soil health remains the foundation of agricultural transformation in Nigeria.

It emphasised that with rising climate challenges, integrating biostimulants, organic practices, indigenous knowledge, and climate-smart technologies offers a pathway to resilient food systems, enhanced farmer livelihoods, and improved public health.

“Evidence from trials in Nigeria, Uganda, and Côte d’Ivoire demonstrated 30–150% yield increases from the use of BiOWiSH biostimulants, particularly in rice, maize, and coffee.

“Biostimulants have also shown potential to reduce dependence on synthetic inputs while improving soil microbiome health, with direct benefits for human and ecosystem health,” the communiqué said.